Privilege escalation vulnerability in glusterfs due to a temporary file issue

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:26771

Date: (C)2015-09-15 (M)2018-01-22

Class: VULNERABILITY

Family: unix

The host is installed with glusterfs on RHEL 7 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which modifies a shell script during the installation of the glusterfs packages. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to escalate their privileges to root.